Sugawara no Michizane and the Early Heian Court (Harvard East Asian Monograph, 1986) - awarded the 1990 James Henry Breasted Prize by the American Historical Association - (Paperback second edition University of Hawaii Press, 1994).

“The Politics of Classical Chinese in the Early Japanese Court,” in Rhetoric and the Discourses of Power in Court Culture: China, Europe, and Japan, David. R. Knechtges and Eugene Vance, eds. (University of Washington Press, 2005)

“Jō;jin’s Travels from Center to Center (with Some Periphery in between),” in Heian Japan, Centers and Peripheries, Adolphson, Kamens, and Matsumoto eds. (University of Hawaii Press, 2007)

“A History of Dō;myō;ji to 1572 (of Maybe 1575),” in Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 62, no. 1 (Spring 2007)